Sorry for posting it again - but I received no answer until now.
Maybe this time! Anyway I added some more info to it.
So here we go again:
Please excuse me if Iīm wasting bandwidth and this question is already
answered elsewhere already, but I would need to get the Masquerading
IP-Firewall feature together with the Traffic Shaper function (thatīs the reason
why I use the 2.1.x kernels) to work.
The transparent masquerading works quite well for me with the 2.0.25/27 kernel,
but it does not seem to forward anything with 2.1.17-2.1.19. Any ideas?
I use the SuSE distribution rel 4.4, but installed the following patches:
LibC: 5.4.1.7
LibC++: 2.7.2.1
BinUtils: 2.7.0.3
Insmod: 2.0.0
Procps: 1.01
SysVinit: 2.69
ld.so: 1.8.5
SysKlogd: 1.3-3
Mount: 2.5p
Net-Tools: 1.32-alpha
Kbd: 0.91
I can ping stations on both ethernets, and "netstat -r" shows everything OK.
If i boot kernel 2.0.25 it forwards and masques packets, with the 2.1.x it doesnīt.
I compile all option directly into the kernel - not as a loadable module, if that matters.
Also those that make modules would generate, I changed that.
Other odd thing: with the new init it obviously does not start /sbin/init.d/boot
automatically, as it did with my original distribution. No matter if I use the 2.0.x or 2.1.x kernel.
So I added an "ln -s /sbin/init.d/boot /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S00boot". That seems to fix that
problem - is that a viable solution ?
Also the /etc/route.conf needs editing when I switch the two kernel releases.
Cheers, Stefan !
stefan@nces.co.at